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st<strong>an</strong>d out as particularly numerous. In the case of malting m<strong>an</strong>y tradesmen with room<br />

<strong>an</strong>d capital could make malt. Malting for the most part was not labour-intensive, so<br />

allowed the part-time maltsters time <strong>to</strong> pursue their other trades. In the case of shops<br />

<strong>an</strong>d public houses womenfolk may often have played a large part in the day <strong>to</strong> day<br />

running of the business, while the menfolk were busy with their other trades.<br />

Other combinations of occupations are often where similar trades are pursued<br />

by the same m<strong>an</strong>. For example, the saddler who also made harness, horse-collars <strong>an</strong>d<br />

leather bags. In other combinations it is the place of work which dictates the trades<br />

pursued, as where a corn-mill is also geared up <strong>to</strong> make paper or needles.<br />

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